!Bob
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Repression almost never announces itself by targeting everyone at once. It begins quietly, aimed at minorities, those with less power, fewer allies, or voices that are easier to ignore. Their rights are restricted, their freedoms narrowed, and their suffering dismissed as exceptional or deserved.
January 17, 2026 at 2:59 PM
Repression almost never announces itself by targeting everyone at once. It begins quietly, aimed at minorities, those with less power, fewer allies, or voices that are easier to ignore. Their rights are restricted, their freedoms narrowed, and their suffering dismissed as exceptional or deserved.
While this points out important and horrific outcomes, I think it'd be more effective at convincing the one person who needs to see it if it was just a list of his overseas properties that will be seized on day one.
There's only one person he actually cares about.
There's only one person he actually cares about.
The Suicide Pact: What Happens the Moment We Touch Greenland…
Guest Post by Brent Molnar
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January 16, 2026 at 2:58 PM
While this points out important and horrific outcomes, I think it'd be more effective at convincing the one person who needs to see it if it was just a list of his overseas properties that will be seized on day one.
There's only one person he actually cares about.
There's only one person he actually cares about.
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I think that an underreported reason for why "<insert group here> has low AI adoption" is that many people do not have the luxury to be able to trade time for accuracy.
It's hard enough for women and minorities to succeed in STEM careers. We don't have the same luxury to be forgiven for mistakes
It's hard enough for women and minorities to succeed in STEM careers. We don't have the same luxury to be forgiven for mistakes
January 14, 2026 at 7:38 AM
I think that an underreported reason for why "<insert group here> has low AI adoption" is that many people do not have the luxury to be able to trade time for accuracy.
It's hard enough for women and minorities to succeed in STEM careers. We don't have the same luxury to be forgiven for mistakes
It's hard enough for women and minorities to succeed in STEM careers. We don't have the same luxury to be forgiven for mistakes
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When I put this up yesterday I was told off for not including an image of me eating a big meringue - and so
January 11, 2026 at 2:27 PM
When I put this up yesterday I was told off for not including an image of me eating a big meringue - and so
Beautifully animated. Well made. Worth the watch.
Ersatz is OUT!
The indie pilot I've been solo-animating for 1.5 years is now on youtube. Check it out!
youtu.be/yf2tBjHvx9s?...
The indie pilot I've been solo-animating for 1.5 years is now on youtube. Check it out!
youtu.be/yf2tBjHvx9s?...
ERSATZ | PILOT
YouTube video by saint greaver
youtu.be
January 11, 2026 at 5:44 AM
Beautifully animated. Well made. Worth the watch.
It's important to take breaks from the doom scrolling, and the bike ride I just took in the snow to go retrieve breakfast burritos for the family?
It was exactly the kind of break I needed.
I hadn't ridden on ice and snow before, it was a lot less sketchy than I expected.
It was exactly the kind of break I needed.
I hadn't ridden on ice and snow before, it was a lot less sketchy than I expected.
January 9, 2026 at 4:37 PM
It's important to take breaks from the doom scrolling, and the bike ride I just took in the snow to go retrieve breakfast burritos for the family?
It was exactly the kind of break I needed.
I hadn't ridden on ice and snow before, it was a lot less sketchy than I expected.
It was exactly the kind of break I needed.
I hadn't ridden on ice and snow before, it was a lot less sketchy than I expected.
yeah, that's pretty much how this decade feels.
January 9, 2026 at 3:08 PM
yeah, that's pretty much how this decade feels.
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Hungry eyes
January 6, 2026 at 4:35 PM
Hungry eyes
Did a quick ride around the block to verify and everything seems good, so I guess I'm now able to patch bike inner tubes.
I'd replaced them before but don't think I'd done a patch. So far so good. That was simple and cheap and now I feel more confident that I could do it on the side of the road.
I'd replaced them before but don't think I'd done a patch. So far so good. That was simple and cheap and now I feel more confident that I could do it on the side of the road.
January 4, 2026 at 11:54 PM
Did a quick ride around the block to verify and everything seems good, so I guess I'm now able to patch bike inner tubes.
I'd replaced them before but don't think I'd done a patch. So far so good. That was simple and cheap and now I feel more confident that I could do it on the side of the road.
I'd replaced them before but don't think I'd done a patch. So far so good. That was simple and cheap and now I feel more confident that I could do it on the side of the road.
I paused it 3 times, got:
sultry
prosperous
zip-line
I feel good about that prediction.
sultry
prosperous
zip-line
I feel good about that prediction.
Take a screenshot of this GIF, and whichever new word you land on is YOUR word for 2026.
Let's. Go.
Let's. Go.
January 1, 2026 at 6:46 PM
I paused it 3 times, got:
sultry
prosperous
zip-line
I feel good about that prediction.
sultry
prosperous
zip-line
I feel good about that prediction.
That explains all the lemon pigs.
Yes. Subjectively speaking the Invite Era is a storied past time of myth and legend, a pansexual paradise that could not last forever and did not, but whose essence yet lingers, the background radiation of everything Bluesky is today, yes, yes, there is still ALF hog in everyone and everything here
I was about to say “Isn’t Bluesky only a few years old?” but then realized that’s only in OBJECTIVE time, not subjective, for which it’s been a goddamn eternity.
January 1, 2026 at 6:45 PM
That explains all the lemon pigs.
"Visa gift cards are designed to be used like cash, so you can't transfer the balance to your bank account like you would with a credit card. "
- From an FAQ about visa gift cards.
I can deposit cash at my bank. I can't deposit a credit card. What even is wrong with people?
- From an FAQ about visa gift cards.
I can deposit cash at my bank. I can't deposit a credit card. What even is wrong with people?
January 1, 2026 at 4:26 PM
"Visa gift cards are designed to be used like cash, so you can't transfer the balance to your bank account like you would with a credit card. "
- From an FAQ about visa gift cards.
I can deposit cash at my bank. I can't deposit a credit card. What even is wrong with people?
- From an FAQ about visa gift cards.
I can deposit cash at my bank. I can't deposit a credit card. What even is wrong with people?
Please...my pig....he's gravely ill.
January 1, 2026 at 4:06 PM
Please...my pig....he's gravely ill.
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This is essentially the plot of The Sound of Music.
"Any artist cancelling their show at the Trump Kennedy Center over political differences isn't courageous or principled—they are selfish, intolerant, and have failed to meet the basic duty of a public artist: to perform for all people"- Kennedy Center spokesperson Roma Daravi
Kennedy Center vows to sue musician who canceled performance over Trump name change
The Kennedy Center is planning legal action after jazz musician Chuck Redd canceled an annual holiday concert. Redd pulled out after President Trump's name appeared on the building.
www.npr.org
December 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
This is essentially the plot of The Sound of Music.
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"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
Best part of owning a 3d printer, hands down, is the "I wonder how that works" part.
For example: Just watched a video on Janney Couplers. They're neat, I want to play with one to feel how it works.
Sure enough, there are STL files already. Push a few buttons and my robot starts making me one.
For example: Just watched a video on Janney Couplers. They're neat, I want to play with one to feel how it works.
Sure enough, there are STL files already. Push a few buttons and my robot starts making me one.
December 25, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Best part of owning a 3d printer, hands down, is the "I wonder how that works" part.
For example: Just watched a video on Janney Couplers. They're neat, I want to play with one to feel how it works.
Sure enough, there are STL files already. Push a few buttons and my robot starts making me one.
For example: Just watched a video on Janney Couplers. They're neat, I want to play with one to feel how it works.
Sure enough, there are STL files already. Push a few buttons and my robot starts making me one.
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hello please help me decide which version is funnier.
Option A: Goofy and the slop blender are off-screen, implied.
Option A: Goofy and the slop blender are off-screen, implied.
December 20, 2025 at 3:10 AM
hello please help me decide which version is funnier.
Option A: Goofy and the slop blender are off-screen, implied.
Option A: Goofy and the slop blender are off-screen, implied.
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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
December 22, 2025 at 3:37 AM
Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:
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please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
Highly amused by the stories of companies using agentic AI chatbots to run their internal company stores, only for their employees to immediately Bugs Bunny the chatbot into giving them free stuff www.aiweirdness.com/when-a-chatb...
When a chatbot runs your store
You may have heard of "agentic AI", which is basically the idea that you can hook up a large language model to controls that do real things. The controls might run internet searches, run commands to o...
www.aiweirdness.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:20 PM
please let “bugs bunnying” become the slang for manipulating an LLM into ignoring its guardrails, i have never seen a more succinct and evocative term for it
I was so upset when they started adding features to notepad.
It had one job.
It had one job.
December 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
I was so upset when they started adding features to notepad.
It had one job.
It had one job.
So profoundly disturbing.
As a person who has been studying extreme far right ideologies for the last decade (and did a PhD on immigration) I find the entrance of “remigration” into the mainstream American political lexicon so profoundly disturbing
December 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
So profoundly disturbing.
So sad to hear of this, and what an awful way to go.
Princess Bride changed my brain chemistry as a kid and is one of the few works of art in film that I only grew to appreciate and respect more as I got older. RIP Rob Reiner
December 15, 2025 at 4:46 AM
So sad to hear of this, and what an awful way to go.
www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-alt...
I bought 32gb of DDR5 in September for $85. I tried to compare it to today's prices, but it's totally sold out.
The closest comparable RAM I can find in stock now is $350ish.
Wild.
I bought 32gb of DDR5 in September for $85. I tried to compare it to today's prices, but it's totally sold out.
The closest comparable RAM I can find in stock now is $350ish.
Wild.
Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal
Or: How the AI Bubble, Panic, and Unpreparedness Stole ChristmasWritten by Tom of Moore’s Law Is DeadSpecial Assistance by KarbinCry & kari-no-sugataBased on this Video: https://youtu.be/BORRBce5TGwIn...
www.mooreslawisdead.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:27 PM
www.mooreslawisdead.com/post/sam-alt...
I bought 32gb of DDR5 in September for $85. I tried to compare it to today's prices, but it's totally sold out.
The closest comparable RAM I can find in stock now is $350ish.
Wild.
I bought 32gb of DDR5 in September for $85. I tried to compare it to today's prices, but it's totally sold out.
The closest comparable RAM I can find in stock now is $350ish.
Wild.
I need more headlines like this in my life.
We don’t do court reports, especially when it comes to violent crime, but there’s always an exception.
December 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I need more headlines like this in my life.